church
Forms
- Plural
- churches
- present (v1)
- church
- past (v2)
- churched
- past participle (v3)
- churched
- present participle
- churching
- 3rd person singular
- churches
Definitions
1.A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
2.Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
3.A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
- Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.
- As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.
- He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
4.A particular denomination of Christianity.
- The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
1.Used to express strong agreement.(slang)
1.To educate someone religiously, as in a church.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #504
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”). Doublet of kirk.